There are two ways you can render your drawing with RenderWorks. You can render the entire drawing or marquee select a specific object or group of objects. In either case, you must add at least one light to your drawing to adequately display the rendered objects.
When testing renderings, use at most a 1:1 scale.This is much faster and will not affacet final renderings.
RenderWorks allows you to render using any of VectorWorks' provided rendering engines and provides one additional one. RayMaker is a more sophisticated rendering engine which allows more detailed shadowing and ray tracing. It provides true anti-aliasing and allows you to control your shadow resolution. It supports transparency and reflectivity. Some of these features can be modified via the QD3D tab of your Document Preferences.